Vice President of Supply Chain Operations
Ref: BBBH:503973
Atlanta, Georgia
$145,000
- Permanent
About the candidate
The candidate is a highly experienced professional in the field of restaurant operations and food manufacturing consulting. They have a strong background in assessing current operations, implementing sourcing strategies, and optimizing processes. They are skilled in performing food safety audits, evaluating front and back-of-house operations, and reducing costs while maintaining consistency and quality. Additionally, they have a track record of success in creating and implementing KPIs, negotiating supplier contracts, and overseeing large-scale projects.
What makes them great?
- Led the acquisition of a 2nd manufacturing facility to double capacity.
- Certified Safe Quality Food (SQF)III in 90 days.
- Renegotiated supplier contracts to cut raw materials costs by 15%, saving $2.5m in 2021 and $2.8m in 2022.
- Reduced labor to 7% of total sales from 12%, saving over $1.5m annually.
- Refined KPIs as the organization diversified product offerings and grew from $3.5m to $28m.
- Onboarded Ciao Bella Gelato through a triangular merger and re-commercialized 15 SKUs.
- Fuent in Spanish, and multiple certifications to include HACCP, forklift, and First Aid.
Areas of expertise
- Assess current state with recommendations for optimization and improvements
- Implements sourcing strategies to include equipment, raw materials, and vendors
- Performs food safety audits in compliance with local health department, state department of agriculture, and/or FDA/USDA requirements
- Evaluates front and back of house operations to increase throughput, minimize waste and overall cost of goods while focusing on consistency, quality, and hospitality Food Manufacturing Consulting
- Conducts bottle neck analyses to identify true capacity, utilization, and ideal run rate
- Creates and implements KPIs focused on improving the bottom line
- Creates a master bill of materials guide to assess costs and true margin
- Negotiates multi-million-dollar supplier contracts in many product categories